The Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Working Group has published the Working Group Note Best Practices for XML Internationalization. This document provides a set of guidelines for developing XML documents and schemas that are internationalized properly. Following the best practices describes here allow both the developer of XML applications, as well as the author of XML content to create material in different languages.

Editors: Yves Savourel, Jirka Kosek, Richard Ishida.

FAQ-based article: What is a character encoding, and why should I care?

This article is aimed at content authors, users, and anyone who is unsure about what a character encoding is, and wants a brief summary of how it affects them.

By Richard Ishida, W3C.

The i18n Core Working Group has begun reviewing this specification and will send comments if it finds any issues. If you have comments on this specification related to internationalization topics, you can send them to the i18n Interest Group list.

Update: The Working Group has now sent a list of comments.

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This article was updated substantially to cover XML as well as (X)HTML and provide additional details.

Comments are being sought on this article prior to final release. Please send any comments to www-international@w3.org (subscribe). We expect to publish a final version in one to two weeks.

The following talks were given at the Internationalization & Unicode Conference in San Jose, USA (15-17 Oct 2007).

Richard Ishida gave a presentation entitled Hints for Designing International Web Pages. [search keys: talk-2007 talk-ishida]

Felix Sasaki gave a presentation entitled Internationalization Tag Set 1.0 – A New Standard for Internationalization and Localization of XML .

Conference program

The Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of Best Practices for XML Internationalization. This document provides a set of guidelines for developing XML documents and schemas that are internationalized properly. Following the best practices describes here allow both the developer of XML applications, as well as the author of XML content to create material in different languages.

Editors: Yves Savourel, Jirka Kosek.

FAQ-based article: How do I use language markup in HTML or XML content when I don’t know the language, or the content is non-linguistic?

By Richard Ishida, W3C.

The Perl regular expression for testing for UTF-8 was updated. For a detailed list of changes read the full post.

At the beginning of the expression, “m/^(” was change to “m/\A(“. At the end “)*$/x;” was changed to “)*\z/x;”. This is to better handle multiline form feedback.

The change was also made to the Polish version.

Thanks to Rafael Zanella the FAQ-based article “Setting charset information in .htaccess” has now been translated into Brazilian Portuguese (language negotiated).